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posted 10 November 2004 02:50 PM      Profile for Contrarian     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Great story by Carol Goar about Italian women leading resistance against the Fascists.
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...By day's end, Monteleone's military governor had fled, the mayor was in disgrace and 187 women — who had controlled the village for a few triumphant hours — were in prison. Some of them remained behind bars for more than a year.

Similar flare-ups soon started occurring across southern Italy, all led by women. "In towns where there were men, nothing happened," Volpe said.

Eleven months later, Mussolini was deposed. In October of 1943, as the Allies marched through Italy, Canadian troops freed the jailed women of Monteleone.

The whole story is recounted in a book, to be released by the European Union this week, entitled Women Against the War...


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